What's there to dream about if you never traffic in the ridiculous, tedious details of reality?

It does not necessarily mean anything more than that he did not wish to go into the tedious details of those family quarrels.

All the minute and tedious details of his schedule ran like a river through his brain.

So let's not go into tedious detail about all its capabilities and professional advantages.

People have to trade all those tedious details about their previous lives.

I spent the day taking care of a number of tedious details and formalities.

"Instruction" is the next argument, yet Huet does not go into tedious details here.

This mannered repression leaves much space in the novel for the author to fill with tedious detail.

"Has he gone off into the wilds on adventure and left you here, slogging away at the tedious details?"

There is no point in describing in tedious detail what followed.